Heather Wiker Email & Phone Number

United States

• Trusted thought partner and strategic advisor to reproductive health and justice leader, CEO Christine Charbonneau.• Provide Chief of Staff-level support and leadership for Board Affairs, guiding the organization from startup to 501(c)(3) status.• Collaborate with reproductive rights veterans and allies across specialties and geographies to conceptualize, plan, fund, and implement reproductive health solutions to the immediate crises across the US, and build strategies to ensure future access to abortion, contraception, and reproductive health. • Develop and oversee fundraising initiatives including raising over $5,200,000 in 2024 to support medication abortion access projects.• Manage all organizational operations, including program implementation, long-term financial planning, budgeting, taxes, and audits.

Greater Seattle Area

• Represented the Division Director and faculty across the University, School of Medicine, and UW Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, and Idaho (WWAMI) medical education program, regional hospitals, and to the public. • Managed division operations, administration, project management, residency programs, new faculty recruitment, and website design.

Seattle, Washington, United States

• Served as a strategic advisor and thought partner to CEO Christine Charbonneau, providing principal support on organizational and strategic matters.• Managed President’s Office operations, including budget development and administration, workflow process evaluation, and redesign.• Led Board Affairs, encompassing recruitment, mentoring, development, and orientation; conducted ongoing reviews of board roles and responsibilities.• Advised on governance matters, including PPGNHI bylaws, committee charters, PPFA Accreditation standards, and best practices.• Collaborated with Marketing, Public Affairs, Development, and Communications teams to develop and implement effective internal and external communication strategies.• Recruited, trained, supervised, and mentored executive and administrative assistants; led a mentorship program.• Directed projects and initiatives assigned by the President, Board, and C-suite staff, coordinating with senior leaders and colleagues across departments and locations.

Communications: Partners with the CEO, Strategy Team, and with the Directors of Marketing, Public Affairs and Media, and Development to ensure consistent tone and frame of internal and external communications and messaging. Ensures the Board of Directors (BOD) is kept informed of talking points on current and breaking news items and that the BOD and PPGNW staff are kept informed of significant PPGNW and PPFA internal decisions.Editor: Trusted agency editor, newsletter and annual report editor, assist strategy team members as needed with editing projects, founded and manage a pool of volunteer editors. Created and maintain PPGNW editing stylesheet.

Assistant to the CEO: Manage all daily operations for PPGNW President, including scheduling, travel, meeting preparation and attendance, and all phone, email, and written communications. Book domestic and international travel. Prioritize all internal and external scheduling requests, oversee president’s long-term scheduling priorities, and aggressively schedule with donors, community, and political leaders at every opportunity in coordination with any necessary travel for meetings and conferences. Anticipate and troubleshoot any conflicts, ensuring absolutely smooth travel and scheduling. Member of executive team. Represent the president by attending meetings in her absence, speak for the president. Office of the President: Assist the chief operating officer and legal director, manage office of the president administrative staff, mentor agency support staff. Frequent source of information and advice for other PPFA affiliate executive level administrative assistants. Implemented efficient processes and procedures. Moved office to paperless within two months of hire. Board of Directors: Managed the 20-member board of directors, including agenda and materials preparation, minutes, and all logistics for 30-person, in-person and remote meetings, as well as the monthly meetings of seven board committees. Created and maintained a SharePoint site for the board of directors and committees. Project Management: PPGNW Mergers / Acquisitions: Managed logistics and all material preparation for the three affiliate merger of PP of Western Washington, PP of Alaska, and PP of Idaho, creating PPGNW in November 2008; managed same for acquisition of Family Planning of Clallam County in 2010.Affiliate Meetings: Manage monthly 100+ attendee all-administration staff and health center manager meetings, with attendees both in person and attending via conference call and GoToWebinar.

Greater Seattle Area

• Led campaigns that elected worker and long-term care champions and passed or defended against ballot initiatives, advocacy campaigns supporting public policy positions on long-term care & health care access, financing, workforce, quality, and other key issues. • Supported coalition efforts and campaigns that addressed social and racial justice. • Represented SEIU 775 in various coalitions, hearings, meetings, and other events. • Developed campaign plans, drafted sign-on letters, managed in-person, phone banking, online advocacy, and direct action.

Greater Seattle Area

***November 2007 – January 2008, SEIU for John Edwards, New Hampshire – Logistics (VAN) and Assistant Field Manager; coordinated staff and volunteer campaign activities, including member contact and general public contact, door knocking and phone banking scripts, campaign events and logistics. ***September 2007 SEIU Member Political Action Conference, Washington, DC – Logistics Manager; ***June 2007 SEIU Healthcare Founding Convention, Baltimore, MD – Logistics Manager and on-site assistance for a delegation of 40 union members and staff, including travel, lodging, ground transportation. ***July – November 2007 SEIU Healthcare 775NW field work for the 2007 Washington State election cycle – Campaign Manager, managed logistics (VAN), volunteers, and staff for campaign events, door knocking, phone banking, and campaign communications, including phone bank scripts and data analysis.***Spring 2007 SEIU Healthcare 775NW Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) – Campaign Manager; communications with membership and community groups and leaders to further awareness of the EITC. ***Fall 2006 SEIU (International) Florida Senior Voter Action, Florida Congressional District 16 – Campaign Manager; organized and led meetings with volunteers, community groups and labor leaders. Managed volunteers and staff, campaign events, campaign communications including door knocking, phone banking; and union member and general public contact. ***Spring 2006 City of Seattle Initiative 91 – Campaign Manager, with no paid signature gatherers, successfully gathered over 25,000 signatures in support of I-91, an initiative to stop the City of Seattle from continuing to subsidize professional sports teams with taxpayer dollars without a fair market value return on the investment to the City of Seattle. The initiative passed in November 2006.

Greater Seattle Area

• Responsible for Chief of Staff-level Principal Support, leadership and management of Executive Board Affairs, and President's Office Operations and Administration. • Developed and administered the Board and President's Office budgets, evaluated and redesigned workflow processes and procedures as needed. • Recruited, hired, trained, supervised, mentored, and evaluated administrative support staff for the OOP and other departments as requested. • Frequent project manager for campaigns and initiatives.

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